Podcasts about kiri beilby

An unlikely group of women played an important role in the early days of fertility treatments. (First broadcast July 7, 2019)

An unlikely group of women played an important role in the early days of fertility treatments. (First broadcast July 7, 2019)

An unlikely group of women played an important role in the early days of fertility treatments.

This week, Stu tells us about the life of Australian spider expert Barbara York Main, who among many other things recorded the longest-lived spider in the world; and Claire talks to Dr Kiri Beilby about how age affects fertility in both women and men, and getting reliable information from sources like yourfertility.org.au

This is the tale of Ernest John Christopher Polge and his substantial contribution to the field of reproductive biology.

This week our tales from the Laborastory feature comedian and game designer Ben McKenzie talking about Australian computer scientist Veronika Megler, creator of a revolutionary interactive adventure game in 1982; and reproductive scientist Kiri Beilby telling the story of English biologist Christopher Polge, pioneer of freezing sperm for artificial insemination.